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No, not the current one. “After the second wave of the Black Death swept through Europe in the 17th century, the survivors burned the bodies, thanked god, and built monumental tributes to their deliverance.” This particular column was erected in Vienna, Austria. “Vienna in 1679 was the perfect place for an epidemic outbreak. The combination of a densely packed population, poor sanitary conditions, and travelers arriving regularly in the city from parts unknown makes the arrival of the plague somewhat unsurprising, but the toll was tremendous. As many as 75,000 people perished and were burned in plague pits in the outskirts of the city, while the imperial family skipped town.
When it was all over, Emperor Leopold I rolled back into town, took some money from the royal coffers and had this monumental celebration of life over death erected - including a not terribly subtle effigy of His Imperial Highness praying for the deliverance of the city.” This plague column was one of several that I saw, but was certainly the grandest and most lavish one. Did we really think another plague would never come? Even with all the medical knowledge and science of today, it seems that we may have taken a step back in time by ignoring the information and lessons of history….
Now the corona epidemic, but has become no longer be able to cherry-blossom viewing, I enjoy to just at least in the SL 😊🌸
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L’unique colonie de fous de Bassan française, qui niche au large de Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d’Armor), est en proie à une épidémie d’influenza aviaire meurtrière. C'est une catastrophe qui touche un patrimoine naturel fragile et inestimable.
The only colony of French gannets, which nests off Perros-Guirec (Côtes-d'Armor), is in the grip of an epidemic of deadly avian influenza. It is a disaster that affects a fragile and priceless natural heritage.
Up again at 4:00 am have alot of time to think about things while I'm waiting for my pain meds to kick in.
People do not seem to be concerned with the growing heroin epidemic here in the states. As people with chronic pain lose their proscription drug coverage they turn to heroin because it is a good pain reliever and readily available anywhere. Unfortunately its a sad commentary about this country and the people that control; it.
Here's another example of a Fuji-X in camera jpeg from raw image. Under exposed by 1 stop in raw to deepen shadow but raised 1/3 EV as a jpeg for better clarity.
Filming the city at the center of the COVID-19 epidemic is a crew that found themselves stranded in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei province, when the city was placed under lockdown on Jan. 23 to contain the virus.
“They (my fellow crew members) are in Wuhan … They want to do something meaningful,” said Lan Bo, who went to Wuhan to direct a feature film but has shifted his focus to document daily life. “They want to record what happened.”
Film Crew Documents Life in Wuhan Amid COVID-19 Epidemic.
The streets are eerily empty. Buildings stand silent. There’s hardly any sign of life.
Such descriptions may evoke a post-apocalyptic cityscape, but they’re actually real scenes from Wuhan, a once-bustling transportation hub of 14 million people appears nearly deserted during the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
Le riprese della città al centro dell'epidemia di COVID-19 sono di un troupe cinematografica che si è ritrovata bloccata a Wuhan, la capitale della provincia di Hubei, quando la città è stata messa sotto blocco il 23 gennaio per contenere il virus.
La troupe del film che era a Wuhan per dirigere un film ha spostato la propria attenzione documentando la vita a Wuhan in mezzo all'epidemia di COVID-19 e ha fatto qualcosa di significativo .
Le strade sono stranamente vuote. Gli edifici sono silenziosi. Non c'è quasi nessun segno di vita.
Tali descrizioni possono evocare un paesaggio urbano post-apocalittico, ma in realtà sono scene reali di Wuhan, un centro di trasporto un tempo vivace di 14 milioni di persone che appare quasi deserto durante l'epidemia di coronavirus in corso.
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172 E. Nanjing Rd., Shanghai
By then, certain residential compounds had been locked down, rumours had begun to spread and the flow of people on the street had decreased significantly, though most residents remained unaffected.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
In the year, 1518 a woman named Frau Troffea
Started dancing in Strasbourg
and couldn't stop.
An epidemic of joy
The craze spread
The uncontrollable desire to move
Neighbors and passing witnesses
Were infected like a fire
Could not stand still
An unbearable sensation until all the limbs flailed and
The doctors and police wailed.
It had to be illness...or sin....
Something outside of the body
Now within
And then, the dancing was banned
A woman's body just had to be controlled
Even then.
Time and space is an illusion.
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759-2 Fahuazhen Rd., Shanghai
On 29 March, it was rumoured that the PCR screening results in Pudong, Shanghai were so horrific that Puxi would be locked down earlier than the original date of 1 April. This caused a rush to buy.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
710 bis 59 Dingxi Rd., Shanghai
She noticed that I was photographing her and pulled up her mask. For most of us, wearing a mask is an acting act, a disguise and, most of the time, a complete waste in terms of epidemic prevention.
131-1 N. Xiangyang Rd., Shanghai
The "QR code for the place" on the wall outside the window is a new-born relic of the past, after six months of monitoring the lives of the residents, as China has completely abandoned its anti-epidemic restrictions.
Theoretically, each customer was supposed to scan the "QR code for the place" with his/her smartphone, which then displayed a so-called "health QR code": if it was green, it meant there is no problem, if it was yellow, the customer would be refused and, if it was red, everyone, whether the customer with the red QR code or the shop assistants who were present, would be arrested and taken to a concentration camp for quarantine.
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137 Wukang Rd., Shanghai
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
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To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
In the night of March 27th, an announcement was made by the Shanghai government to close Pudong and Puxi in succession.
At midnight that night, Pudong went into lockdown first. On the following day, the residents in Puxi rushed to buy vegetables, meat and fish, and food prices soared.
At the time, however, people like the ones in this photo mostly thought the food rush had nothing to do with them. Now, many of ones like them are scared out of their wits by the harsh and barbaric govermental measures and are making plans to flee this desperate country.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Captured in September 2020. Today Glasgow remains in level 3 lockdown restrictions with a high level of the B1.617.2 variant of coronavirus dominant in the area. Although I have had both vaccine doses the advice is to avoid travel to and from Glasgow unless absolutely necessary. It will be a while yet before I consider it safe enough for street photography to resume for me. Stay safe everyone!
M. Wulumuqi Rd., Shanghai
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To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
On 28 March, the day after the announcement of the successive lockdown of Pudong and Puxi and the first day of the lockdown in Pudong, the city centre of Puxi was left untouched for the time being while a rush for food had happened.
A photo I took this year in the summer. Taken in The Black Country Museum. An industrial Revolution classroom. She was teaching about epidemics, relevant then and now. As of lunchtime today I, my good lady wife and daughter have become a number in the epidemics song book, all testing positive. One day in the future classrooms will be talking about this like all the other moments in history. It will pass, people will grieve, survive and remember and the World will spin on. A New Year awaits 2021.
165 Taiyuan Rd., Shanghai
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To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
On the afternoon of 31 March, with a few hours to go, all residents would be banned from going outside. Despite the overcast sky and the prospect of a downpour, this old man was seriously trying to dry his sheets and clothes, perhaps to enjoy the last moments of outdoor activity.
M. Sichuan Rd. & E. Nanjing Rd., Shanghai
By then, certain residential compounds had been locked down, rumours had begun to spread and the flow of people on the street had decreased significantly, though most residents remained unaffected.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
99 Jiashan Rd., Shanghai
At 2 p.m. on 31 March 2022, cordons were drawn up all along the streets and the officials were urging the shops to close. This grocery shop was so packed with people and was never likely to reopen from then until today, and no one knows if it will ever open again.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
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To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
Smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu,
When someone smiled at me today,
I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner
and someone saw my grin.
When he smiled I realized
I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile,
then I realized its worth.
A single smile, just like mine
could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin,
don't leave it undetected.
Let's start an epidemic quick,
and get the world infected!
(this poem, often misattributed to Spike Milligan, was actually written by Jez Alborough and is titled 'The Smile'. He published it in his 1991 collection, Shake Before Opening)
Smile on Saturday! :-) - MULTIPLE SMILEYS
(original photo by Freya, edit by me)
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The diphtheria epidemics of 1883 and 1897-1898 and cholera in 1894 during the early settlement years took the lives of many people living in the Pleasant Plains area. Many of the graves were marked by planting clumps of iris, bushes, or trees or just putting limestone rocks on the gravesite. With the passage of time, the limestone rocks deteriorated and flowers, bushes and trees died. It is estimated there were about 100 burials in the cemetery from 1879 to 1915. As near as can be determined, the last burial was about 1912.
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The late and still great Daniel Johnston didn't always know how to go about relating to people face to face but he did know how to ask the most important question.
We're in a really high panicked time where the coronavirus and information about the coronavirus is evolving every hour or faster. With schools closing and some restaurants and businesses, panic buying, and people told that they should be working from home if at all possible, these are dire times.
Definitely the scariest thing about this pandemic is that it seems now there are a high number of people who are asymptomatic in their 20s and 30s especially who are spreading this virus for others who are older and/or immunosuppressed. This is very different from what we were told initially, which was that if we weren't symptomatic, we were just find to carry on about our normal lives. So, if you can, please self quarantine even if you don't have symptoms.
www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-asymptomatic-sp...
In a time of self quarantine, we must ask ourselves how we will evolve as human creatures who happen to be social beings. I've always thought of Flickr as a space where I was lucky enough to see photos from around the world in a glance each day. I think we owe it to each other as artists and as humans to share with each other how we are spending this time of self quarantine and to comfort each other. I want to hear from you. I want to comfort you. I want to laugh with you. I want to cry with you.
I want to make sure you're ok. Hi, how are you?
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Here's the Daniel Johnson Hi, How Are You mural in Austin, Texas in 2007:
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The above photograph was taken in Philly in a much different time and space of reality and is myself with my partner, musician, painter, cat lover, drawer, and organic chemist, Cinchel.
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a fun little collaborative blog photo I did with my baby orange and mamabear wearing the amazing B.C.C Arcade items c;
society is the epidemic, they all talk about you, about me, indirectly, behind backs, talk as if they speak right from the gap where the soul should be, that we’re in depression instead of consciousness and dreams are symptoms. As if they have transferred to a word a disease, and drop us like a sentence into the depth of empty eyes and there’s no wall, but only a sharp sheet of paper between us and them.
Are we the dreams of sleepwalkers? The awakened in a dream?
I really love you, Kostaki
In 1892, a cholera epidemic devastated the docklands population, convincing the city of Hamburg to demolish the warren of overcrowded, unhygienic alleyways and start again. First came the Speicherstadt, the largest warehouse district in the world built between 1885 and 1927. Then came the Kontorhaus district. Both are part of the World Heritage site designated in 2015.
The Sprinkenhof is an architectural masterpiece and one of the great examples of Brick Expressionism, with lovely details like the intricate, late-art deco interior staircase and one of the few remaining paternoster elevators. Designed by architects Fritz Höger and the Jewish brothers Hans and Askar Gerson in 1927, the Sprinkenhof took 16 years to build in three phases. Construction was delayed by economic crises and political upheaval, the death of Hans Gerson in 1931, his brother’s persecution and eventual exile in 1938. The building was finally inaugurated in May 1943. Two months later, Allied firebombs gutted parts of it, causing damage that took years to repair.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Multiple studies have shown that there are genetic factors and gut microbiome factors that can lead to an increased likelihood of obesity. It is not always as simple as 'eat less' or 'exercise more' as there are many other factors at play including eating disorders, mental health issues and disability. We should never judge unless we have walked in someone else's shoes. Obesity is a modern epidemic of which science is still learning so please note that any derogatory comments will be removed. We are all human and we all deserve understanding and care.
Stay safe out there everyone!
36 Yishan Rd., Shanghai
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
In the night of March 27th, an announcement was made by the Shanghai government to close Pudong and Puxi in succession.
At midnight that night, Pudong went into lockdown first. On the following day, the residents in Puxi rushed to buy vegetables, meat and fish, and food prices soared.
91 Tianping Rd., Shanghai
The government encourages the opening of shops in order to capture tax revenue, all the while still adhering to the Zero-Covid policy to the extent that any premises that are open for business do so with trepidation.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
Due to the recent epidemic/pandemic, social distancing, and just plain being careful, I've been staying home as of late. What this means is: no photography for a while. So, why not dive into the archives and see what I can find. Here's one from almost 7 years ago. A cowboy showing off his stuff near the Portland Saturday Market. Happy Monochrome Monday, everyone! =)
Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Thursday (April 30) announced that there were no new cases of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) for a record fifth day in a row.
www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3925726
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46 Yongkang Rd., Shanghai
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Cordons have been up all along the streets of the city centre, and in a few hours, steel plates will be erected in their places to enclose each block.
On the afternoon of 31 March, the teahouse was closed. Two girls were sitting on a bench outside the teahouse eating their fast food. It seemed that they had not yet realised the severity of the situation and were unprepared for the lockdown which had taken place so far since then.
I have a saying that only one in thirty sunrises are exceptional. Fortunately, timelapse increases my odds. As long as there is movement, I find them very entertaining to watch and record. Today, however, was spectacular so I labelled it "One in Thirty". (Sony a1, 12-24 lens @ 12mm, f/2.8, auto ISO, 3 second interval) (Music piece named Lenikaeru by Sugoi, downloaded from Epidemic Sound)
Yongjia Rd. (76 Taiyuan Rd.), Shanghai
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36 Yishan Rd., Shanghai
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In the night of March 27th, an announcement was made by the Shanghai government to close Pudong and Puxi in succession.
At midnight that night, Pudong went into lockdown first. On the following day, the residents in Puxi rushed to buy vegetables, meat and fish, and food prices soared.
However, this marketplace was ordered to suspend its business to be disinfected and sterilised. Large quantities of vegetables had to be piled up on the streets and could not be brought into the marketplaces. It was almost like a war was coming. Residents who came to buy vegetables had to seek other places or wait until this marketplace reopened.
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I played with some different setting in this mornings timelapse leaving the aperture wide open at f/2.8. That was to avoid flickr which I haven't noticed, but one person was kind enough to point out that he saw some. I still don't see it but would appreciate any feedback if anyone else does on any of the timelapses. I used an interval of 3 seconds this morning since the clouds were moving fairly quickly. (The music is from Epidemic Sound, I Wanna Run With You by Gloria Tells.) (Sony a1, 12-24mm lens at 12mm, f/2.8, auto ISO)
S. Shaanxi Rd. & Shaoxing Rd., Shanghai
On 15 March, a man was live streaming the whole process of his live sketching on his smartphone from a street corner, while two old men were standing beside him watching. The three men chatted about the epidemic situation in Shanghai, based on information they had received from the official media.
The two onlookers attributed the situation to slackness in Shanghai's preventive and control measures, which they hoped would be taken more severely, while the sketch artist blamed everything on the Hong Kong travellers who had come to Shanghai, believing that they had brought the virus into the city that caused the unmanageable situation.
Two weeks later, all of Shanghai would be under an indefinite lockdown. The two onlookers would see the 'tougher control measures' they had hoped for, while the sketcher, who blamed Hong Kong travellers, would see the end of the epidemic in Hong Kong.
To understand the fiasco of China's epidemic prevention, please read these reports:
www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2822%2900...; cn.nytimes.com/business/20220525/china-covid-zero/dual/
To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
Anfu Rd., Shanghai
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To know what has happened in Shangai since March, 2022, watch these videos: youtu.be/DGL29gU_I8o , youtu.be/HQxJBhR5ZzU, and read these stories: www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/business/shanghai-xinjiang-chi..., www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html and www.voanews.com/a/foreign-businesses-consider-leaving-chi...
On 28 March, the day after the announcement of the successive lockdown of Pudong and Puxi and the first day of the lockdown in Pudong, the city centre of Puxi was left untouched for the time being while a rush for food had happened.
This street corner, where the flower seller has always occupied, is a place of leisure for the fashionably wealthy. It seemed that he did not mind the impending lockdown of the city. Now the lockdown has been in place for more than twenty days, I wonder how people like this who make a living on the streets get by.
My daughter had seen pictures online of a cemetery filled with bluebonnets in Palo Pinto County near Strawn Texas. So on a beautiful April evening we found our selves in the Strawn area looking fo the cemetery and the flowers. After over a half hour we had not found it though we checked all the cemeteries on our Google map. As we were driving southward out of town, my daughter found the name of the cemetery on Facebook at about the same time that we drove by the gate of Mt. Marion Cemetery. There were not many flowers in the front half of the cemetery but we got out and started walking towards the rear of the cemetery, the whole back half of the cemetery was covered by a deep carpet of bluebonnets (Lupinus texensis) as shown in this photo. Wow!
A historical marker in the cemetery gives this history of the cemetery: “Located on land once owned by William W. Johnson, whose coal mining operations spurred major development in nearby Thurber, this cemetery was named for Johnson's daughter, Marion, who died at age three. It later became the primary burial ground for the town of Strawn. The earliest documented burial dates to 1883. Interred here are many area pioneers, including town founder Stephen B. Strawn, former Texas Rangers, veterans of wars from the Civil War to World War II, and victims of the devastating 1918-19 influenza epidemic. It is a reflection of the area's heritage”.